Priya Nair
Staff Software Engineer
Staff engineer at Shopify who cut Black Friday checkout latency 38% and built GitHub's scheduler running 10M+ jobs daily.
- 38%p95 latency cut at Black Friday peak
- 10M+workflow jobs scheduled per day
- 30Kenterprise customers served
- 14person platform group led
Experience
Staff Software Engineer, Checkout Platform at Shopify
2021 – Now
Cut checkout p95 latency 38% at Black Friday peak (4.1M requests/min)
Senior Software Engineer, Actions at GitHub
2018 – 2021
Built the job scheduler running 10M+ workflow jobs per day
Software Engineer, Azure Storage at Microsoft
2015 – 2018
Shipped geo-redundant blob replication used by 30K enterprise customers
Education
- University of WaterlooBASc Computer Engineering, 2015
Skills
- Distributed systems
- Go
- Rust
- TypeScript
- Kubernetes
- Performance engineering
- Technical leadership
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